Publication Date:
2004-01-13
Description:
Advances in transition state theory and computer simulations are providing new insights into the sources of enzyme catalysis. Both lowering of the activation free energy and changes in the generalized transmission coefficient (recrossing of the transition state, tunneling, and nonequilibrium contributions) can play a role. A framework for understanding these effects is presented, and the contributions of the different factors, as illustrated by specific enzymes, are identified and quantified by computer simulations. The resulting understanding of enzyme catalysis is used to comment on alternative proposals of how enzymes work.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Garcia-Viloca, Mireia -- Gao, Jiali -- Karplus, Martin -- Truhlar, Donald G -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Jan 9;303(5655):186-95.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14716003" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Catalysis
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Computer Simulation
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Enzymes/*chemistry/*metabolism
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Kinetics
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Mathematics
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Models, Chemical
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Models, Molecular
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Protein Conformation
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Thermodynamics
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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